Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equality Labs | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide South Asian specific public health materials on Coronavirus in 10 languages, digital security for South Asian-serving CBOs, and a blueprint for how to set up Mutual Aid networks. | Boroughwide |
| Milagros Day Worldwide | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For bilingual virtual support groups, summits and workshops, and referrals to shelters, food delivery, and crisis intervention for survivors of domestic violence. | Boroughwide |
| Siren - Protectors of the Rainforest, Inc. | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide food relief and online movement classes for the residents of Rehab Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Progress Playbook | 2015 | $5,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | Progress Playbook designs customized learning experiences for entrepreneurs so that they can accomplish their business goals. A $5,000 grant will provide 10 Crown Heights youth with a three-month entrepreneur training program, through which each will develop a comprehensive business plan. Three plans selected by community members will receive financial and technical assistance to launch or expand their business within Crown Heights. | Crown Heights |
| The Center for Anti-Violence Education | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For an online Upstander workshop that teaches participants how to address bias incidents particularly against Asian communities | Boroughwide |
| Nurun Foundation | 2019 | $5,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Sustained Response Grants | To support computer/ESL classes, civic engagement, and community outreach for Bangladeshi immigrant communities in Brooklyn | Cypress Hills, East New York |
| Simone Leigh | 2015 | $5,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | Resident Simone Leigh is receiving a $5,000 grant to support an innovative series of drumming classes and workshops for black women and girls in Crown Heights, which seeks to build bridges across cultures and communities and provide a nurturing environment where participants can relax, learn new skills, exercise, and connect in a non-competitive way. | Crown Heights |
| UnLocal | 2019 | $5,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | For a collaboration with fellow IRF grantees Queer Detainee Empowerment Project, BAJI, DRUM, and Make the Road New York for a convening on efforts to abolish immigrant detention centers in New York state | Boroughwide |
| Young Movement | 2015 | $5,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | Young Movement provides research, advocacy, and partnerships on socio-economic issues like financial literacy and employment alternatives for young adults. Funds will support the Weeksville Entrepreneurship Project to train 10 young adults from the Weeksville section of Crown Heights in tools to find and create sustainable solutions to employment, financial, and health disparities in Weeksville. | Crown Heights |
| New York Immigration Coalition | 2019 | $5,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | For a re-printing of the organization's Know Your Rights cards, supplies of which were completely depleted in the lead up to recent ICE raids | Boroughwide |
| Service Workers' Coalition | 2020 | $5,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide weekly grocery deliveries or reimbursements to unemployed food service workers unable to access benefits. | Boroughwide |
| WeCopwatch | 2020 | $3,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To create an online guide with strategies on how to document the police when stopped, or as a bystander, in a manner that can keep one safe from COVID-19, outlining citizens’ rights during the current “shelter in place” order. | Boroughwide |
| Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support a convening of the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project's NYC Chapter in Fall 2018, aimed at promoting leadership development, capacity building, and organizing to address the ways in which community members are targeted by the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems | Boroughwide |
| Enlace | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | Support for the National Freedom Cities Convening which aims to strengthen relationships between leaders spanning issues from fighting mass incarceration to supporting immigrant families and building Black youth leadership; map the changing political landscape; and create a strategic plan to mobilize thousands of people in New York and across the country in the Freedom Cities movement. The Freedom Cities movement was created in January 2017 by immigrants and communities of color to make entire cities, towns, and communities safe for immigrants, Black people, Muslims, workers and all oppressed communities. | Boroughwide |
| Adhikaar | 2019 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | For the National Nail Salon Workers Exchange, taking place on March 25, 2019 at Barnard College | Boroughwide |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To fund the organization of a political education session highlighting issues affecting Black immigrant workers—including economic inequality, unemployment, racial discrimination, and the impact of harsh immigration enforcement practices—as well as mobilizing a Black contingent for May Day 2017 that lifts up unique issues facing Black immigrant workers . | Boroughwide |
| The New American Leaders Project | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | On June 9, 2017, NALP will host “Ready to Rise,” a training for 120 first- and second-generation immigrants in New York City that will demystify the political process and embolden immigrant women to run for public office. | Boroughwide |
| Yemeni American Merchants Association | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support a board and staff strategic planning retreat for short-term and long-term activities in light of the Muslim Ban | Boroughwide, Bay Ridge |
| Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | From April–June 2017, BACDYS will offer 4 free "Know Your Rights" workshops for East New York's Bangladeshi community, designed to empower immigrants and address fears by providing accurate legal education in Bengali. | East New York, City Line |
| Arab American Family Support Center | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support “Stomp Out the Muslim Ban!”, an art protest and dance rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall, presented by young women activists using traditional Arabic dance as a tool to protest anti-Muslim bigotry | Boroughwide, Downtown |
| The Black Institute | 2018 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | To support the Black Immigrant Forum to be held in Brooklyn on August 28, 2018. The all-day event aims to educate Afro-Caribbean, Afro Latino, and African immigrants on current immigration policies, provide on-site legal consultation/screenings in collaboration with the NYU Immigration Clinic, train participants on "Know Your Rights", and offer referrals to pro-bono services. | Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Flatbush |
| New York Communities for Change | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | In May 2017, NYCC will launch a member-led community defense network in Flatbush to protect its Latinx, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern immigrant members and neighbors from deportations, police brutality, and mass incarceration—all of which disproportionately affect Brooklyn’s immigrant, especially Black immigrant, populations. | Flatbush |
| OCA-NY Asian Pacific American Advocates | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | In June 2017, OCA will host "Where Can Immigrants Living in Fear and Uncertainty Get Help?” a forum that brings together elected officials, government agencies, law professional, and community organizations to assist Asian immigrant communities in Brooklyn with legal advice and immigration fraud alert. The forum will be held at the Chinese Promise Baptist Church in Sunset Park. | Sunset Park |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2017 | $2,500 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Action Fund Grants | Support for the 2017 Black Women's March on Washington | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn Free School | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient The Brooklyn Free School Team for "Let's Talk About It! Housing Justice," a project aimed at educating and creating a documentary on housing justice and gentrification. It will engage youth by arranging visits to town hall meetings, reading articles and watching interviews addressing housing, gentrification and justice, as well as opportunities to engage with the Mayor’s office and participate in local shelter events. As part of the project, the youth team will create a documentary and facilitate a workshop for youth on housing rights. | Fort Greene, Clinton Hill | |
| Ancient Song Doula Services | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Awarded to Sevonna Marie Brown with Ancient Song Doula Services for "Reproductive Renaissance," which uses grassroots political philosophy to foster a restorative space for women of color to come together and seek refuge in reproductive justice and education. Black girls and women of color have a history of using their personal spaces—the living room, grandma’s bedroom, the kitchen, the beauty salon, the front porch—as spaces for women-centered empowerment and healing. | Bedford Stuyvesant | |
| Common Justice | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | A victim-service and alternative-to-incarceration program based on restorative justice principles that works with young people who commit violent felonies and those they harm. | Boroughwide | |
| Eco:StationNY | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient Iyeshima Harris with Eco:StationNY for "Farm to Cafeteria," a student-led outreach project focusing on healthy eating and self-empowerment that engages students at a place and time they are thinking about food: the lunchroom. The project will use school lunch and culturally relevant food to teach youth how to healthfully and affordably prepare meals they love. Through cooking demos, students will learn how they can combine fresh produce with goods from their supermarket, instilling in them the knowledge, access, and creativity to needed to transcend and redefine what food means in a low-income neighborhood. | Bushwick | |
| Center for NuLeadership | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient Yamil Torres with the Center for NuLeadership for “Bridging the Healing Gap,” which will facilitate gatherings that provide space and educate youth who are affiliated with gangs and/or are street involved about how, why, and where gangs originated, explain political and racial history, and principles of what gangs were founded on. The second half of the project will focus on changing the way the larger community views the youth by opening up dialogue with an intergenerational event. | Bedford Stuyvesant | |
| Off the Page, Inc | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient Shaqur Williams with Off the Page, Inc for "All American Boys," a show adapted from the book by the same name that addresses different points of view between a black teenager and a white teenager in a community and the way police officers approach them. The project brings black and white actors together to work on this production and to talk about the problem facing the black community and how to work together to address it. | Park Slope | |
| Arts & Democracy | 2016 | Invest in Youth | Youth Voice Awards | Award recipient Hasiba Haq with Arts & Democracy for "Sari Project," which aims to connect young Bangladeshis with women in the community in an intergenerational exchange of stories using the idea of Saris, a traditional outfit for Bangladeshi women, to explore their immigration stories and their histories. The project will help young immigrants and second-generation youth connect with elders in their society, and help carve an identity for them in a diverse borough. | Kensington | |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative | 2020 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide continuous support to vulnerable youth in Central Brooklyn through a secure telehealth platform for one-on-one counseling, social worker participation in webinars, technology updates, and emergency transportation and food assistance. | Boroughwide |